WAN Job Trends in North Yorkshire

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in North Yorkshire requiring WAN skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 30 34
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing WAN 11 15 17
As % of all permanent jobs in North Yorkshire 2.71% 2.08% 4.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.71% 24.19% 26.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7 14 13
10th Percentile £19,300 - £21,375
25th Percentile £26,500 £23,500 £22,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £33,750 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.22% +12.50% -30.87%
75th Percentile £56,250 £45,000 £47,500
90th Percentile £64,500 £55,000 £54,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £28,000 £37,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -25.33% -19.35% +9.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North Yorkshire

WAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in North Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 70 62 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 17.24% 8.61% 17.12%
Number of salaries quoted 46 37 51
10th Percentile - £23,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% - -
75th Percentile £30,000 £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £41,125 £65,000 £63,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £30,500 £45,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year -32.22% +7.14% -6.67%

WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WAN relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire.

WAN job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

WAN
Salary Trend in North Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing WAN.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing WAN

WAN
Salary Histogram in North Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing WAN in North Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for WAN in North Yorkshire

WAN
Job Locations in North Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAN within the North Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
York +7 6 £29,000 -35.56% 4
Harrogate +12 4 £38,750 +3.33% 3
WAN
Yorkshire

WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) LAN
2 6 (54.55%) Firewall
2 6 (54.55%) Network Security
2 6 (54.55%) TCP/IP
2 6 (54.55%) WLAN
3 5 (45.45%) VPN
4 4 (36.36%) BGP
4 4 (36.36%) Internet
4 4 (36.36%) MPLS
4 4 (36.36%) NGN
4 4 (36.36%) SD-WAN
4 4 (36.36%) Unified Communications
5 3 (27.27%) VoIP
6 2 (18.18%) ADSL
6 2 (18.18%) IPv4
6 2 (18.18%) IPv6
6 2 (18.18%) OSPF
6 2 (18.18%) WebEx
6 2 (18.18%) Wireless
7 1 (9.09%) DHCP
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Law
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Unified Communications Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Core Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Support
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Network Design
2 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
3 3 (27.27%) Customer Service
3 3 (27.27%) Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) Change Control
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
5 1 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Supplier Management
5 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (27.27%) CCNA
3 2 (18.18%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO 9001
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco
1 5 (45.45%) Meraki
2 4 (36.36%) Avaya
2 4 (36.36%) Fortinet
2 4 (36.36%) Mitel
3 3 (27.27%) Huawei
4 2 (18.18%) Polycom
5 1 (9.09%) Aruba